Blazer wrote: » It’s very easy really. Foreign= Courteous cyclists in single orderly file, slim, tanned, good looking. Irish= minimum of 2 abreast preferably 3 abreast. Rude , obnoxious , fat, sunburnt etc etc
AndrewJRenko wrote: » Right so as I suspected, you didn't know anything about their nationality, but you made up a story to suit your own personal prejudices. Thanks for clarifying.
RacoonQueen wrote: » Where they shouldn't? Filtering is legal and generally safe. If a cyclist legally goes up the side of a vehicle which is not been driven properly, the error is the drivers. By driven properly I also mean, indicating in good time rather than as you are turning so a cyclist knows to hang back and let you turn. Trucks/HGV's etc in the age of technology we have for vehicles now should be phasing in sensors/cameras etc to that the driver knows if something is alongside them or has come into the space in their blindspot.
AndrewJRenko wrote: » We both know that your exaggerated story about your visit to the cycling forum isn't true, but if you'd like to share details of what username you were using at that time, we can all take a look and come to our own opinions on that incident.
Internet Friend wrote: » Cycling 2 abreast is safer (legal and recommended) and faster to overtake safely
magicbastarder wrote: » in studies done in london and canada, it was found the motorist was to blame in the majority of KSIs.
Baron de Charlus wrote: » Get away out of here and stop bringing facts into the argument. You’re ruining it for everyone else.
AndrewJRenko wrote: » 3-4 people killed by motorists on our roads each week, and you're focused on cyclists and horses. You're looking in the wrong place.
prinzeugen wrote: » Have you found the evidence yet to back up your fake claim that "motorists" kill 3-4 each week? Have you links to the Garda investigations and coroner's reports? You were asked for them last night.
The Rape of Lucretia wrote: » Is that not the case ? 150-200 killed on the roads each year is 3-4 per week. There are very few cases of cyclists killing themselves when their bike 'goes off the road' at 2am with no other cyclists involved, or pedestrians dying when then are involved in a head-on walk into each other. So it is motorists killing 3-4 people per week.
meeeeh wrote: » So do train drivers, pilots, electricity, water, fire pollution and so on... I think society accepted long time ago that there is a cost-benefit relationship to everything. Cycling is fun, it will not replace cars or other types of motorised transport, like computers won't be replaced by typewriters. There are ways of making roads safer for everyone but not by overly emotional exaggerated language that will just antagonize those who they are trying to win over with their arguments.
Blazer wrote: » Well definitely European from Denmark side I’d say.
Blazer wrote: » And actually what cyclists should be giving out about instead of attacking motorists is the government for the crap investment. I’d love to cycle on the road but I wouldn’t risk it. Too many bad roads and too many dickheads on it. There should be a separate road like in Holland for people to only cycle on.
Blazer wrote: » I imagone a few hundred million easily but I reckon we’d make it back from healthier citizens as well as lower carbon emissions etx
Silent Running wrote: » Andy, Andy, Andy. That's twice you've told me what I'm thinking. Do you read minds over the interwebz. Are you a cyclic? If so, you're not very good at it. Wrong at both attempts. Never mind, God loves a trier. What was your username a couple of years ago? I'll tell you mine if you tell me yours.
Atoms for Peace wrote: » Putting yourself in a vehicles blindspot is silly whatever the legality of it. Taking some self-responsibility and commonsense rather than expect somebody else or a sensor to protect you is the only option to stay safe.
Fighting Tao wrote: » Mode of transport does not matter. If you are a clown using one mode, you are a clown using the others.
AndrewJRenko wrote: » Seriously? Evidence? Do you read a newspaper or watch TV news at all? All the data is at: http://www.rsa.ie/en/RSA/Road-Safety/Our-Research/Deaths-injuries-on-Irish-roads/ just in case you've been living in a cave recently.
prinzeugen wrote: » A person jumped of a bridge on the M50 into the path of a truck a few years ago. The death was recorded by the RSA as a road death even although it was suicide. (Coroners verdict was misadventure IIRC). Did the motorist kill them? As I said, unless you know the intimate details of EVERY road death in Ireland, cut the crap about motorists being killers.
Sal Butamol wrote: » There's enough people mowed down by drivers without needing to know the circumstances of every road fatality.
tuxy wrote: » I agree it would be better if they closed the road off and set up detours. The locals from each area should have the say in which they prefer.
Rennaws wrote: » Or how about we not close roads at all. The rest of us use them for things like visiting sick relations and getting them to hospital for appointments, we use the roads for getting in a few bits of shopping, attending funerals etc etc You know, things we have to do in life.. none of us view the roads as a toy ora personal playground so why should cyclists ? Take it off road. This line keeps getting trotted out over and over again ad nauseum and it’s simply untrue in so many cases. I can understand your desire to have a chat given how boring cycling actually is and have no problem with this behavior on the hard shoulder of the N11 or anywhere else that you’re not obstructing vehicular traffic.. But there are numerous roads in my area where cyclists like to “take the lane” and block the road and you can hear them form the blockade, they actually take delight in doing so. In one case there’s excellent off road cycle lane facilities available but again they choose to block an entire land of vehicular traffic as they haul their fat asses up that hill. As I keep mentioning, I never have a problem with experienced cyclists. Just the slow fat ones wobbling all over the road and being a danger to themselves. Then I had a moron decide to pass a slow cyclist while climbing windgates, problem is she had zero road awareness and swerved out in front of me. Luckily for her there was no traffic coming at us because I would have kept left given the circumstances and she would have paid the price. Cyclists were fine until recently but lately there are just too many of them, particularly in large groups, often little to no experience on the road and taking this road hogging business to a new level and in places where it’s inappropriate. I understand defensive cycling and I get the need for taking the lane but it’s become the default position for all cyclists groups on all roads and that’s not teneable for any road network.
PlaneSpeeking wrote: » Or the idiot who STILL insists on cycling through Portlaoise ticket office and on to the platform. He did it in front of two ticket inspectors just now. Nothing will ever be done, I've tried.
P_1 wrote: » PlaneSpeeking wrote: » Or the idiot who STILL insists on cycling through Portlaoise ticket office and on to the platform. He did it in front of two ticket inspectors just now. Nothing will ever be done, I've tried. That guy sounds like a tool.
silverharp wrote: » PlaneSpeeking wrote: » Or the idiot who STILL insists on cycling through Portlaoise ticket office and on to the platform. He did it in front of two ticket inspectors just now. Nothing will ever be done, I've tried. video him and make him famous
Fighting Tao wrote: » PlaneSpeeking wrote: » Or the idiot who STILL insists on cycling through Portlaoise ticket office and on to the platform. He did it in front of two ticket inspectors just now. Nothing will ever be done, I've tried. It’s sad that he is the responsibility of all cyclists.
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